I wonder how Reddit managed to fuck the blocking function up so fucking bad.

No, wait, I don’t. I know how:

• Reddit doesn’t hire people to curb down harassment because that reduces the margins of profit
• harassment runs rampant in the site
• some users want to hide from harassers, and suggest that blocking should prevent the blocked from contacting the blocker
• Reddit be like: “that’s cheaper than doing the right thing! Let’s do it!”
• new blocking has exploits and more exploits, since it allows unilateral control of the conversation
• Reddit tries to fix those exploits, introducing even more exploits

Anyway. Will Digg enshittify again? (Yes.) And unless the functionality of the site changes upon relaunching, Digg is not a good replacement for what Reddit has become; Reddit is not just a link-sharing platform any more, it’s more like a bunch of forums.